Two leading maritime charities have responded to the cost of living crisis with new resources to support UK seafarers. The Seafarers’ Charity in partnership with the Merchant Navy Welfare Board (MNWB) launched the Safety Net for all UK merchant seafarers at the MNWB Annual Conference in Southampton on 12 May 2022.
The new Safety Net website is full of free money management tools and resources specifically to help UK merchant seafarers to manage their money during the current cost of living...
Los puertos marítimos de Ucrania están en la primera línea de la guerra. Ayude a los trabajadores portuarios y sus familias, ahora y durante la crisis. La Asociación Internacional de Puertos y Puertos (IAPH) está trabajando con The Seafarers’ Charity para apoyar a los trabajadores portuarios y sus familias afectados por el desastre humanitario causado […]
Esta entrada IAPH y The Seafarers’ Charity preparan ayuda para los trabajadores portuarios ucranianos y sus familias Aparece primero en FullAva...
The Seafarers’ Charity’s UK Maritime Anchor Fund supports working-age UK merchant seafarers. The Fund is now open for applications for those impacted by the P&O Ferries redundancies. The Fund will support seafarers through financial help, advice, relationship counselling and mental health and wellbeing support and counselling.
The UK Maritime Anchor Fund was created in 2020 with key delivery partner charities to provide an end-to-end package of support for seafarers experiencing financial...
Global maritime charity Stella Maris is bringing Christmas cheer and support to seafarers who are working harder than ever this year to ensure goods are delivered in time for the festivities. The organisation’s chaplains and ship visitors in ports in the UK and worldwide are visiting as many ships as they can to distribute Christmas shoeboxes and gift bags packed full of warm clothing, toiletries, mince pies, chocolate and Christmas cards written to seafarers by the charity’s supporters.
Hundreds...
One million seafarers, onboard more than half the world’s shipping fleet, have now benefitted from the ShipVisitor welfare app, which helps to provide continuity of care as ships and their crew move from port to port. Developed by the international charity Sailors’ Society, the app is used free of charge around the globe by 23 maritime welfare organisations, which provide chaplaincy support to seafarers far from home.
These organisations have used the app to log visits to more than 28,000...
The Seafarers International Relief Fund has issued an urgent appeal for donations on the eve of this year’s IMO Day of the Seafarer, as it pushes towards its fundraising goal of US$1 million in support of seafarers and their families affected by COVID.
The appeal currently stands at US$869,502 in donations and pledges received from across the shipping industry, including corporate and personal contributions. More than US$610,111 has already been awarded in grants to deliver emergency support for...
The Seafarers International Relief Fund (SIRF), established by leading seafarer welfare charities and the wider shipping industry to support seafarers and their families devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has collected $530,000 in pledges so far, and thanks to The Seafarers’ Charity’s agile and established grant-making processes, has already issued grants of almost $400,000 to help those worst affected.
The first three SIRF grants will provide funds to three seafarer charities, Stella Maris,...
Global maritime charity Stella Maris has signed up to the Gulf of Guinea Declaration on the Suppression of Piracy, demonstrating the organisation’s commitment to eradicating the scourge of piracy.
Stella Maris International Network Director Fr Bruno Ciceri, who is based in the Vatican, signed the Declaration on behalf of the charity.
“We fully support the shipping industry and maritime community in the fight against piracy. It is unacceptable that seafarers, unsung heroes who keep world trade...
Ince launches ‘Sailing: Sing for Seafarers’ campaign to raise awareness of seafarers’ crucial role as key workers in the global economy
Global virtual choir recording of Rod Steward’s ‘Sailing’ to be launched as single on International Maritime Organisation’s Day of the Seafarer 2021 to raise funds for maritime charities
04 May 2021, London – International legal and professional services firm, Ince, has today announced the establishment of a global virtual choir from companies and...
The Mission to Seafarers announced the launch of a new fundraising campaign to sustain the crew welfare support currently being provided around the world at a time when it is most needed and as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. The Mission will unveil a rolling programme of initiatives which will have significant benefits for the welfare of the entire industry from welfare training for seafarers and frontline staff to new family support network offerings, reassurance and practical help.
The...